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The Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority is shopping for redevelopment ideas for the northwest corner of their Downtown footprint, and they’re inviting developers to dream big. Their board is currently reviewing four proposals for the site, one of which has been in the works by Wagenbrenner Development for around a year.

Amicon says that Wagenbrenner approached both city officials and the convention authority to find out if they would be interested in allowing them to develop a limited-service boutique hotel concept at the southwest corner of Goodale and High.

Isn’t the Greek Orthodox Church on the SW corner? I guess it doesn’t matter since they want to go bigger. Just was curious. So the renderings in the article was for which corner of Goodale and High?

Its the South-East corner of High and Goodale (you can tell from the image). That space is currently so wasted with the lack of storefronts and badly designed convention center addition in what is more or less the center of activity in Columbus.

Its the South-East corner of High and Goodale (you can tell from the image). That space is currently so wasted with the lack of storefronts and badly designed convention center addition in what is more or less the center of activity in Columbus.

Thanks, I wasn’t sure because the rendering provides quite the facelift for the convention center facing High (which is fine by me).

Multiple companies have answered the call for new development on the north side of the Convention Center, including Wagenbrenner, Pizzuti and Starwood Hotels. A collaborative proposal has also been submitted from Daimler, Kaufman and Continental, which include two 12-to-15 story towers that would house a hotel, new residences, retail and office tenants.

It doesn’t appear that the convention center authority is ready to embrace the mixed-use proposals, and may be leaning, at this point, more to the strictly hotel ones based on this Business First quote:

How fast is the timeline for this? 1? 2? 5 years? I hope that they don’t hassle this process too much. From what I’ve seen, the buildings are magnificently designed and mostly include mixed-use development. Im just excited to see construction cranes coming into Downtown from the West.

How fast is the timeline for this? 1? 2? 5 years? I hope that they don’t hassle this process too much. From what I’ve seen, the buildings are magnificently designed and mostly include mixed-use development. Im just excited to see construction cranes coming into Downtown from the West.

What I heard back in January was that Rockbridge (the hotel developer on Wagenbrenner development) was financially set up to move forward ASAP.

I also heard that the review process “should take a few months”.

The official word today from the Convention Authority is that there is no specific timeline established at the moment for the current proposal review process.